Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday that he believes schools should voluntarily change team names and mascots that some people find offensive.

Gov. Scott Walker said that school districts should drop Indian team names on their own and questioned whether the state should force them to do so, signaling that he will sign a bill making it harder for state officials to end the practice. »Read Full Article

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Oh boy, the looney left fringe element is going to go ballistic. I applaud the Governor for not falling over himself to correct a non-problem. There is literally not one thing on this planet that isn't offensive to someone. Yes, literally.

Wow I am agreeing with BO, granted if you can find any "saying" and "quote" that will not offend anyone, congrats is all I can say. Wow when I went to school, Nobody even thought of what the "so called" name was, we went to South Division HIgh School, and were proud of the school and the location. If the "so called" name was so hurtful to anyone, guess you have to "prod my memory" Just remember the school, and the many memories.

Clean water. I couldn't resist. "There is literally not one thing on this planet that isn't offensive to someone. Yes, literally" is such an asinine remark, it could not go unanswered. So, yipee! I can't wait now for a school to call their team the "(insert school name here) Cotton-Pickers" with their Little Black Sambo-esque mascot! "What's wrong with you loony lefties?" whine the fans/apologists. "It's HONORING the hard work and perseverance of the 19th-century American slave!"

The companies that sell water cleaning equipment, supplies and such certainly fall into that category (Aqua-Chem, et al), as well as looney left groups like Sierra Club, who use that issue as a major source of fundraising.

Nick, I don't think anybody is going to go ballistic. We will however add this to the list of issues that Scooter will have to defend in his next election. Promoting insensitive treatment of minorities doesn't seem to me like it will play well in a gubernatorial race, much less a presidential race,

(from the article): "I get the concern" of opponents, Walker said. " But the counterbalance to that that I'm looking at is, by the same token, from a free speech standpoint...where do you draw the line on free speech?"

Thank you, Governor Walker, for defending The Constitution of These United States!

For too long, Liberals have been trying to chip away at the Constitutional protections of Free Speech -- in the name of giving "offense" to some or other group of people. As such, the so-called "offended" people have held the rest of us hostage, with their terrible name-calling, threats, and intimidation. =(

But Governor Walker is "Un-intimidated"! Governor Walker will Stand His Ground!

Join The Tea Party! We are staunch Defenders of The Constitution of These United States! =)

Merry Christmas, everyone! (And I don't care if anyone is "offended" by that.)

I know and rarely do even bother reading her regurgitated drivel, but to hear someone accuse a group of people of intimidation, threats and name-calling when THAT GROUP is actually the one being called names, might be the absolute height of hilarity

Wow Marne, you are for sure no better saying Tea is offensive, you have made many offensive comments at others over the last fe weeks, so don't make your self out to be so "HOLY" and to tell the truth you belong with your partner BOHIx or are thes ame person. What a bunch of BS JS alows. So funny mine are gone as soon as I go to another site. Have to live and die with JSonline

Wow Marne, you are for sure no better saying Tea is offensive, you have made many offensive comments at others over the last fe weeks, so don't make your self out to be so "HOLY" and to tell the truth you belong with your partner BOHIx or are thes ame person. What a bunch of BS JS alows. So funny mine are gone as soon as I go to another site. Have to live and die with JSonline

When the gov't subsidizes (such as schools) the Amendment allows for limited speech. Agree with it or not that is part of the first amendment and allows for the gov't to limit the freedom. I personally it does not bother me what if the school keeps the name or not. There will always be someone to complain about it for some reason.

Hate speech??? Geez. You must think that schools adopt demeaning mascots just to poke a stick in someone's eye. What a silly notion that is. Schools adopt mascots that convey a sense of strength and power and strength. Geez, lighten up. The perpetually offended are wearisome.

Why do politians always have to "signal" something? Whats wrong with just saying yes or no, like being pregnant? Signaling is for between ships at sea with flasher lights. And speaking of being offensive, maybe the Pewaukee Pirates should change their name/logs as pirates have a long history of being violent people and promoting violence. Just look at today pirates capturing ships/people going around Africa. Duhh

Fine liberal education right there. Sorry to tell you this but Indians also had reputation for invasions, raping, hallucinogenic inspired debauchery, and imbibing spirits from the skulls of those vanquished.

You don't believe that Indians were created here, right? I mean, they immigrated here too just before probably our ancestors. Are you recommending that we go to war with new immigrants like the Indians did? Seems rather xenophobic to me...

Its like Obama on gay marriage. He says one thing but does nothing to make things equal. Like if Lincoln would of said I don't like slavery but I am not going to do much of anything to make things equal.